Archive for the ‘Blog century song’ Category
Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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There are so many modes of transportation in India viz foot, bullock cart, tonga, car, bus, trains,etc. And Bollywood movies have songs picturised on all these modes of transportation. In fact, Bollywood movies have songs on some unusual modes of transportations as well. For example, there have been songs where hero is seen riding an elephant and singing away.
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In this blog, I post gems from the golden era of Bollywood movie music, which happened to be roughly from 1950 to 1980, though I have posted songs that are from the times falling outside this era as well. Many of the songs that I have posted are well known even today, while many other songs that I have posted have become forgotten. I particularly love to post those songs which were very popular during their time but which may not be known to too many people today.
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Bollywood movies and Indian Railways are two of the major unifying factors for this vast nation of India. And these two often come face to face. We have people sitting in railway trains and singing songs (ask beggars on local trains) and on the other hand we have movies depicting songs sung in trains.
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I have mentioned it in the past that “NeelKamal” (1968) was a movie that gave us some iconic songs.
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As special songs go, this song is very special indeed. Let me enumerate why this song is special.
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This is a wonderful song to listen to. and curiously, I first listened to this song only recently, even though the song is from a movie called “Sab Ka Saathi” that was released in 1972 !
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I have posted a variety of songs in this blog. some are evergreen, some are not so evergreen but still nice songs to listen to. Then I have posted songs which are not just evergreen but which have attained cult status which I call iconic songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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